RX DMA is limited by the length specified in each descriptor and not
by the MAC. Over-length frames may get into the RX FIFO regardless of
the MAC settings, due to a hardware bug, but they will be truncated by
the packet DMA engine and reported as such in the completion event.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c | 2 --
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
index b29db12..4105a666 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
@@ -1953,8 +1953,6 @@ static int efx_change_mtu(struct net_device *net_dev, int new_mtu)
netif_dbg(efx, drv, efx->net_dev, "changing MTU to %d\n", new_mtu);
mutex_lock(&efx->mac_lock);
- /* Reconfigure the MAC before enabling the dma queues so that
- * the RX buffers don't overflow */
net_dev->mtu = new_mtu;
efx->type->reconfigure_mac(efx);
mutex_unlock(&efx->mac_lock);
--
1.7.7.6
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Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
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